Old News Entry – 2002

I just came home after spending a few vacation days relaxing with my parents in Loveland, Ohio (outside Cincinnati). It was really nice to get away from work for a while, just to take it easy and have fun. Not that I was all that lazy, I guess. I flew out from Baltimore very early in the morning on Thursday last week, so I had to get up at about 3:30am to drive there, which of course meant that I got to the airport WAY too early. Then when I got to my parent’s house at about 8:30am, my mom set me to work in the garden. That afternoon we took a 2 hour walk down by the river, and then went to pick blackberries in the field behind their house, and to look for an old cemetery. I was quite tired by day’s end, but I got to take a bath in the jacuzzi before going to bed, so that felt very nice!

My dad came back into town from Augusta, GA (where he is working temporarily on a mill – he works for International Paper) on Friday afternoon, and while he played golf on Saturday my mom and I took a bike trip of 18 miles or so on the bike trail next to the Little Miami river. On Sunday, we took a trip to see the Serpent Mound, the “largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States”. We also traveled to Fort Hill, a Hopwellian hilltop enclosure. We took a 2.5 mile hiking trail around, which ascended about 400ft to the top of the hill, it was a pretty neat site.

I actually started working on my site to add a link from my grandparent’s site to the genealogy site that I helped my mom set up. For some reason I always end up doing a lot of computer work when I go to Ohio. This time that included helping my dad set up a LAN and helping them set up Outlook to check all of their email addresses at once on their broadband connection (which was actually pretty tricky, ATT Worldnet doesn’t make it easy to find the info you need…). I also wanted to add this picture that I took of a hummingbird that was eating from the hummingbird feeder at the back of the house. I spent a lot of time looking at the hummingbirds and measuring how much the “morning glory” had grown each day. Now that’s what I call a vacation! 😉

Anyway, I guess the previous entry was not all that exciting, but I feel pretty relaxed and ready to go back to work.